Abstract. UML class diagrams can be used as a language for expressing a conceptual model of a domain. We use the General Ontological Language (GOL) and its underlying upper level o...
Interactive virtual worlds provide a powerful medium for experimental learning and entertainment. Nowadays, virtual environments often incorporate human-like embodied virtual agent...
This paper describes the design and performance of a new asynchronous method handling (AMH) mechanism that allows CORBA servers to process client requests asynchronously. AMH deco...
Mayur Deshpande, Douglas C. Schmidt, Carlos O'Ryan...
Abstract. Today’s software systems have to deal with an increasing diversity and complexity of execution environments. Next generation applications will have to deal with the unk...
Over 90 percent of all microprocessors are now used for realtime and embedded applications. Since the behavior of these applications is often constrained by the physical world, it...
The Neem Platform is a research test bed for Project Neem, concerned with the development of socially and culturally aware collaborative systems in a wide range of domains, through...
Paulo Barthelmess, Clarence A. Ellis, The Neem Pla...
This paper makes two main contributions towards establishing support for application-specific factors in middleware security mechanisms. First, it develops a simple classification...
CORBA is an important standard middleware used in the development of distributed applications. It has also been used with distributed real-time applications, through its extension ...
Mobile services offering multi-feature query capabilities must meet tough response time requirements to gain customer acceptance. The top-k query model is a popular candidate to im...
In this paper we propose a mediator architecture for the querying and integration of Web-accessible XML data sources. Our contributions are (i) the definition of a simple but expr...